Auto fill space to fill the line width

Question

Hi, i would like to know whether crystal report can do the below alignment.
I got a field which have few words,i.e. sometimes 4 words, sometimes 5, or 10.
I want a alignment which can left and right align at the same time
for example,
the line have below width, when the words are not enough for a full line, it will automatically add more spaces between the words, so that they can "Left" and "Right" align.
4 words
|                                                     |
do      like        program      bug
5 words
|                                                     |
i    want  no  more  program  bug
THX

Answer 1

hi Wong Chi,
as Dell mentioned above, it's difficult to determine if there's only going to be one line in a field or formula. in order to count the number of lines, you need to use something like this. in that solution where only the number of lines are counted, a fixed width font is also required.
for your particular case, once you determined the line count is equal to 1, you'd then need to figure out the number of words you have by splitting the text into an array
split({@yourformulaorfield}, ' ')
using a space as the delimiter and then you'd need to figure out how many characters you need to pad the line with
length({@yourformulaorfield})
and then divide that by the number of words you've got
numbervar nw:= ubound(split({@yourformulaorfield}, ' '));
and then replace the existing spaces with the new spacing
replace({@yourformulaorfield}, ' ', replicatestring(' ', nw))
by the way, if you're wondering if this is a bug, it's not. ms word uses the same behaviour with single lines as well...i.e. it doesn't justify a single line...at least in my version it didn't.
-jamie